[HPFGU-OTChatter] How to address mail to the UK

[Janette]

On 8/31/07, anita_hillin <anita_hillin at yahoo.com> wrote:

> You want off-topic?  I got yer off-topic right here!
>
> I'm trying to standardize a new database, and our mailing addresses to
> folks in the UK are - well - all over the map, as it were.  Since a
> fair number of you are either in the UK or likely mail to the UK,
> what's the standard Country listing?  Our system uses England,
> Ireland, and UK, seemingly in random order (some English addresses are
> UK; some are England.  Ireland seems pretty consistently Ireland; I'm
> presuming it would say Northern Ireland if it were supposed to be UK.)
>
> Does it matter?  Am I fretting over nothing?  Or, should I change
> England Scotland and Wales to UK?  (I don't think I have any N Ireland
> addresses right now.) Enquiring minds want to know!
>
> akh, who's grimly determined to whip this database into shape!


montims:
I write to lots of people in England, and I just write United Kingdom,
without "England" first.  I wouldn't write Scotland, Northern Ireland or
Wales either - the town, county and postcode if correctly and clearly
written should get the mail there ok - the United Kingdom bit is just to
make sure post physically gets onto the island, I think...


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